Since ROS Fuerte, the rx
applications or tools are deprecated and we should instead use the rqt
nodes. They are basically the same, only with a few of them incorporated with small updates, bug fixes, and new features. Also, they can be loaded as plugins into a single window/application, which is rqt_gui
. We show the equivalent for the tools shown in this chapter in the following list:
rxconsole
is replaced byrosrun rqt_console rqt_console
rxgraph
is replaced byrosrun rqt_graph rqt_graph
rxplot
is replaced byrosrun rqt_plot rqt_plot
rxbag
is replaced byrosrun rqt_bag rqt_bag
Furthermore, being plugins that can also be run standalone, there exist more tools, such as a shell, a topic publisher, and a message type viewer. Even rviz has a plugin named rqt_rviz
that can be integrated in the new rqt_gui
interface; all this is fully integrated in ROS Groovy and Hydro where rx
tools are deprecated but still in the bundle. The same happens for ROS Fuerte,...